PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WEEK - 2 November 2007

Buenos Dias, I'm back from Chile. What a fabulous country, great scenery, great food, very friendly people, what more could you ask for - pity about my Spanish - will have to take some serious lessons before my next visit.

We have some fantastic photographs this week, with the strong norwesterlies that New Zealand has been experiencing, the emphasis is on lenticular clouds and to continue with the Chilean interest we have included three fabulous photographs taken by Matthew Cant in Southern Chile, as well as a couple of very interesting photos from Israel.

Rona Lomas

'I am a new browser of your site and have so enjoyed seeing so many beautiful photos. I see you have had a couple in the past of ones similar to this, but thought you might like another take on this type of formation. My camera is a Pentax Optio S' wrote Rona.

Christian Hanson

'A shot taken from the lee of the Kaitaki ranges during a strong southerly, Mt Taranaki in the background' wrote Christian.

Tony Butcher

'We see many fantastic clouds from here near Oamaru, mainly due to the range of the Southern Alps that are 50+ miles away.

This turned up on at 18:00 on 22 August 2007 and I was quick enough with my camera to catch this dramatic shot. I was surprised later to see a similar shot on TV1. Most of our dramatic cloud formations are in the Winter' wrote Tony.

Blair Pattinson

Blair wrote 'Hi, I have used your website for sometime now and have found it to be fantastic. The photos that are posted are great and I always look forward to the new ones to be posted. I took this photo on the 22 October 2007 at 20:10 with a Canon 400D as the following days weather was approaching. The photo is over Cecil Peak in Queenstown. Hope you enjoy it, and keep up the good work with the website.'

Matthew Cant

Matthew wrote 'I'm a regular visitor to your MetVUW website and interested to hear you are in Chile, a favourite part of the world for me and host to some terrific clouds and tempestuous weather. I've spent most of my time down south in Patagonia where the ferocious winds howl in from the Pacific and give rise to dramatic cloud formations.

This photo is of Cerro Fitzroy, from the Ice Cap. These lens clouds develop every afternoon in the same locations when the conditions are right and stack up like pancakes!

Matthew Cant

'John Garner sled hauling on the Chilean side of the South Patagonian Ice Cap during our longitudinal traverse in the footsteps of explorer Eric Shipton.'

Matthew Cant

View South is a dramatic sky further south on Estancia Un de Enero near Torres del Paine National Park, again in Chile

I certainly did Matthew and can't wait 'till my next opportunity to go there. I would like to check out the south of the country next time.

Olga Zubkova

Following on from last week's photo of a weather station in the Atacama Desert we received these two interesting photographs from Olga Zubkova showing the World's lowest meteorological station. Many thanks Olga.

Olga wrote 'On our trip to Israel in the beginning of September this year we went to the Ein Gedi reserve, on the eastern periphery of the Judean Desert, which is bordered by cliffs to the West, the Dead Sea shore to the East, the Mount Yishai Ridge and the Ein Gedi lookout to the North, and Nahal Hever in the South. The lowermost section - the lowest point in the world - is about 400 meters below sea level, and the highest summits are 200 meters above sea level.
There we took some pictures (with the Olympus SP-500UZ camera) of the world's lowest meteorological station Ein Gedi (at -416 m) on the shores of the Dead Sea.'

Olga Zubkova

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